You may be familiar with the "vase or two faces" images (known as Rubin's vase), where a single image looks like both a vase and two faces in profile. This oddly shaped vase goes much farther than that. It shows two profiles at a time, but those profiles change as the vase spins around.

Keeping flowers or plants in your house is supposed to make things more beautiful, not chaotic. But this vase is only balanced when the flowers have water. If too much liquid evaporates, the counter-weight pulls one side of the vase down.

While this vase is probably more attractive to your granny than you, would she understand just how much technology was used in its creation? Custom 3D-printer guys Shapeways made it from glass, which is no small feat for 3D printing.

When Georgios Maridakis' product breaks it's actually an intentional feature. His Clock Vase indicates time with a little hammer that knocks against the porcelain. And at the right stroke, it shatters.

We see PC guts stuffed into vessels not normally associated with technology all the time, but they're always the product of a bored hacker, tinkering away in his free time. This PC-in-a-vase, however, was designed by ECS, a little-known but assuredly real company.

The Facade Vase from Orcadesign is a wool slip-on cover that lets you turn an unwanted plastic bottle into a minimalist vase. It's a design that will clearly please eco-friendly types and cheapskates too. We can see the conversations now: "Here you go, honey, I've got you a flower and (glug, glug) a vase!"... "Oh, you…

Those arty chaps at the Royal College of Art have created some great looking mobile phone concepts. The designs were put together for a competition that was sponsored by the cellular network 3. The runners-up included the Vase phone, which begins as an empty "vessel," but has features added to it gradually, according…

Sound quality, schmound quality. It is more important to have a unique-looking speaker that sounds horrible but looks good doing it. That is why I am ditching my 6.1 system that sounds like angels singing beautiful melodies for this USB vase speaker. Why? Look at it! It's a vase! And a speaker! ... Wait, what? It has…

So your Mom's birthday is approaching, you have $20, and you need a gift, stat. How about making Mom a vase? With this DIY vase kit, you can easily make a beautiful vase to put flowers in for real cheap. Plus she'll love the fact that you made it (sort of) and put effort into it. Fill the vase with warm water and then…

Yes, the Wonder Vase lives up to its name. For just $5.95, you'll get a sheet of paper that when placed in hot water will then automagically bend itself into a stunning vase. Of course, then you have to cool it down in cold water to hold its shape, but once that's done, you're good to go. Run that baby back under hot…